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CVE-2018-6951

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6. There is a segmentation fault, associated with a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service in the intuit_diff_type function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.

EPSS Score⁠: 0.0127 (0.861)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

CWE-476⁠

NULL Pointer Dereference

ADVISORY - redhat

CWE-476⁠

NULL Pointer Dereference

Impacted images

Advisories

NIST

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-6951⁠
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)
CWE-476⁠

CVSS SCORE

7.5high

Alpine

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-6951⁠
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

Debian

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-6951⁠
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Alow

Ubuntu

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-6951⁠
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

7.5low

Red Hat

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-6951⁠
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

1.8

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)
CWE-476⁠

CVSS SCORE

3.3low

SUSE

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-6951⁠
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

1.8

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

3.3low

Chainguard

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY ID

CGA-xx5r-h9wv-p9f9

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY